Ms CARNEY - 2006-02-15
On 10 June last year, you made an election commitment that you would build a new police station on the site of the existing Casuarina Police Station at a cost of $4.8m. The Treasurer’s mid-year report outlines the intended expenditure for meeting election commitments for this term of office for the next four years. The only money that has been put aside to meet election commitments for the police portfolio has been $220 000 per year, and it makes no mention of the promised new police station.
Can you tell us when will the new Casuarina Police Station be built, and why has not the Treasurer put any money aside for it?
Answer
Madam Speaker, there is a separate capital works budget. It is not in the mid-year report. That is recurrent expenditure. We have separate capital works items; they will be in the budget when it comes up for the 2006-07 year.
We are committed. Those announcements are not made lightly in the run up to an election. We are committed to rebuilding the police station for Casuarina. However, there is a sequence here, and it depends on being able to provide a functioning building for the police when we rebuild. What we have to do first is build the fire station at Marrara, move the firefighters to Marrara, and then move the police to the fire station next door, which is a good use of an old building, then we rebuild the police station and the police will move in. There is a sequence in this. We are committed to doing it. The firefighters and the police are looking forward over the next term to getting new facilities instead of the current ones they have at Casuarina, which are pretty old, and having gone through the fire station and the police station recently, I absolutely agree.
Can you tell us when will the new Casuarina Police Station be built, and why has not the Treasurer put any money aside for it?
Answer
Madam Speaker, there is a separate capital works budget. It is not in the mid-year report. That is recurrent expenditure. We have separate capital works items; they will be in the budget when it comes up for the 2006-07 year.
We are committed. Those announcements are not made lightly in the run up to an election. We are committed to rebuilding the police station for Casuarina. However, there is a sequence here, and it depends on being able to provide a functioning building for the police when we rebuild. What we have to do first is build the fire station at Marrara, move the firefighters to Marrara, and then move the police to the fire station next door, which is a good use of an old building, then we rebuild the police station and the police will move in. There is a sequence in this. We are committed to doing it. The firefighters and the police are looking forward over the next term to getting new facilities instead of the current ones they have at Casuarina, which are pretty old, and having gone through the fire station and the police station recently, I absolutely agree.
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